Nearly a decade later, the Patriots got DL Gerard Warren...

Back in 2001, the Patriots had the sixth overall pick of the draft, and they were looking defensive tackle. Of course, they ended up with Richard Seymour and that couldn't have worked out better.

But it's interesting to note that the third pick that year was Florida's massive DT Gerard Warren and that the 12th pick that year was Miami's Damione Lewis. Now, all three players have been Patriots [Edited for me being an idiot.]

As we get ready to meet Warren today in his first Patriots interview, let's get to what Bill Belichick said when he was asked, Would you have taken Warren if he was available?

"Well, all three of those players were in the same draft," Belichick said, before doing some dodging. "It was Warren, then Seymour, then Damione Lewis, all in the same draft. We did a lot of work on all three of those players, as well as a lot of others. But Gerard was picked by Cleveland before we picked, so it was a non-factor for us. But it’s interesting. All of those players have had good careers and it’s interesting that within a calendar year all three of them were here."

Ah, we'll never know...But Belichick would say where Warren'll play.

"Well, he’s played all over," Belichick said. "He’s played for the Raiders: he’s played three technique, he’s played one technique. For the Browns, he was an inside player. He usually played inside the tackles. In Denver, they moved him around a little bit as well. So I think that he’s a guy that can really play from the tackle in. Like Damione Lewis, Ty Warren and Vince (Wilfork), guys like that, I don’t think you’re going to see him outside of the tackles very often. But from tackle to tackle, I think they can play from head-up-to-tackle to head-up-to-center and all of the spots in between. They’ve all done that. So he definitely has some versatility from both the left side, and the right side, and in different alignments in there, and on both early downs, and on passing downs — as Damione has, as Vince has."